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launching a massive propaganda campaign along. the london olympics a key sponsor of the games is accused of humiliating disabled people as part of the government's attempt to cut welfare benefits. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us civilian airports in syria are in the crosshairs of the country's largest rebel group of the free syrian army in a statement on its facebook page the group said that the airports in damascus and aleppo were hosting a military flights as part of an alleged arms smuggling network for the government earlier this month the rebels were dozens of lethal u.s. made missile launchers the delivery carried out by the rebels western backers via turkey interest wrong condemnation the editor of the independent website syria

tribune says the rebels the tactics are beyond the pale. they are attacking civilian airports now is just one more. revealing that actual terrorists nature because it's against every law in the world to attack civilian airports for whatsoever reasons i'm actually surprised they are still enjoying their support when the international community sees that it will slaughtering people civilian people in the street and throwing them from the roof and still support them this gives the wrong message to the rebels that whatever they do they will still enjoy this twisted support at the moment the free syrian army is not heavily armed well enough to win any battle against the syrian army of the syrian army just like what has been happening in the past month but it is definitely have really aren't enough to harm civilians and to endanger the lives of many syrian people. any foreign military intervention in syria would spell total disaster for the peace effort in

the country that is according to un peace envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi who made the statement just a day after taking the baton from his predecessor kofi annan and as our teams are kind of like a report it's a position echoed by moscow. russian foreign minister officials have already commented on this latest development the deputy foreign minister. wraps like this is a direct result of be irresponsible to arm syrian rebels in the meantime his boss russia's foreign minister was talking to you today in moscow thank you once again reiterating that if international players are really interested in trying to put an end to bloodshed that they should apply pressure on both sides of this conflict. with the least demanding. which is the government forces in syria well it seems on . continue following this position is based on the feeling that these forces are

ready to play in extra price which would be a huge number of humanoids to he also said. when it comes to goals international goals in syria russia has absolutely no disagreement with the west russia also wants to see syria free democratic stable state where the main disagreement lies on the mains off which goal and whether it be down through violence and on this international intervention or whether it could be done through diplomatic efforts and in chernow syrian dialogue. are reporting for us there now the recent push at the u.n. secretary security council for human corridor in syria which could lead to military intervention has sparked protests in germany in the country's financial capital frankfurt about a thousand demonstrators gathered demanding an end to foreign interference in syrian conflict or who is at the rally reports. well here in frankfurt in the square in front of the opera house a crowd of around

a thousand people have gathered to demonstrate against foreign military intervention in syria they've been waving the flag of the syrian government at the moment the syrian flag also bearing signs with the face of president bashar al assad they've been shouting their slogans in favor of the president and his baath party however there is a small number of. protesters just over there now there were some heated clashes earlier on between the two groups the police have now moved in to separate them but the vast majority of people as they say around a thousand it is growing throughout the day as this protests continue they are against foreign military intervention they are in favor of bashar al assad may have come out here today to frankfurt to opinion. we're here to expose the lies about syria that they be ensuring that the rest of. the dead that are being sued by terrorists. the u.s.

. you can stay up to date with all of the details on twitter steve. writes how it's not only. to interfere. but also the people of neighboring states as well go to his twitter feed for the latest developments. the choice of sponsors for the london paralympic games is being called into question it has emerged that the u.k. government employs one of them to assess disabled people's right to benefits the french company is accused of wrecking the lives of thousands of disabled people by unfairly forcing them off welfare and as laura smith reports many think

a firm is trying to polish its image by attaching itself to the london games. the paralympics of the ultimate display of troy adversity a showcase for people who've overcome medicine abilities and achieved something amazing but hanging over this event is a shadow cast by may just toss it's the firm the government's paying to assess disabled people's ability to work but it's blamed for humiliating the vulnerable and forcing people off benefits as part of the country. they are making money out of other people's misery quite naturally the old many of them sponsoring the paralympics. and he seems to divide people into the serving size and the un to serving tourney bradstock went through an asshole sesame which resulted in him losing his entire income for six months he says he was made to feel like a criminal and the process resulted in him attempting suicide.

but. ultimately sit and watch the exposure of what moral people will stop to a shade or she took a break because i couldn't find any why i took the roof. any y.i.t. he's not so loaded question groups a thirty two people died a week after being found to work by ourselves disabled people and other activists have travelled here from all over the country very test against sponsorship of the our limits there you know i sit in the admiration of the paralympics themselves but say an organization then they feel was actually ordinary disabled people should play no part in this. in a statement the company defends its practices and policies responsibility back to

the government department pensions which actually makes the final decision. we do not mean decisions on people's benefit entitle him and. who continue to make sure that the service we provide is as highly professional and compassionate is it can be but disability activists say that's just passing the buck and that is sponsorship of the games it's a whitewash it doesn't deserve they're trying to clean up barry maids by trying to associate themselves with sport it's you know this is so disability that it's people's activity that's really given the other side about how alcohol floats how they kill people michael's team g.b. astley subpoenaed to highlight the ground take on that paralympic accreditation during the opening ceremony but activists say that cigarettes are not when it's also the government expect to cause a road to wealth a million people to do use their independent living benefits in the next.

year with our team still ahead for you in the program the u.s. and israel are left embarrassed as more than one hundred nations supporting iran's atomic program as experts believe the country needs it as a talent against international military aggression. also echoes of war in the black sea munitions dumped in the water seventy years ago are still threatening tourist hot spots. tens of thousands of protesters have occupied of the main highway leading to bahrain's capital manama to demand greater freedom and a democratic government but demonstrators held up banners and flags urging the release of jailed dissidents including human rights activist and. the shia majority state which is ruled by a western backed sunni dynasty hasn't been hit by an arrest and protests for over eighteen months the u.s. hasn't been supporting bahrain's regime with its fifth fleet based in the country

colin cavell a former political studies professor at the university of bahrain bill. it's getting difficult for washington to maintain its influence in the country. the united states wants to retain its edge amount of control not only over bahrain but over the entire persian gulf monarchies in the entire middle east in order to keep that crude oil flowing however they realize that with increasing democratic opposition in all these countries that they can no longer rely on the dollar kind of dictators to maintain control and this is particularly true in bahrain where the population three quarters of the population are out on the streets on a regular basis telling the government to lead saying we are no longer in support of monarchy we don't respect you and we don't fear you anymore so what the u.s. is doing with president barack obama is to replace these autocratic despot we

started with the north african regime egypt mubarak was removed in egypt we had ben ali go we had to go with. the regime in yemen go and so now if iraq obama is reelected and november sweeps of this year then he will complete is said to him on a transition lead regime. more than one hundred nations have unanimously supported iran's nuclear program as long as it's used for peaceful purposes after the nonaligned movement wrapped up in tehran and amounts to a resulting slap in the face for the us and israel who have been trying to downplay the role of the gathering the latest i e a report issued during the summit claimed iran has doubled its nuclear capacity by installing new iranian enrichment centrifuges tehran though rejected the document saying it was all politically motivated joe political analyst eric draitser thinks the i.a.e.a. has never been an impartial bot. the iranians do it partially for self-preservation

they also do it for propaganda purposes and to lend themselves clout on the world stage they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law so i think that's the first one the second one of course is the geo political reality that they look around them you look at the map and they see that they are surrounded literally on all sides by the united states or various allies of the united states and the principle is quite clear that the united states will invade nations that do not have the threat of nuclear weapons and the united states does not invade the nations that do have that threat eat. a in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced think tank individuals like l. barra die or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western

powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law cited mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran says iran would have never launched a nuclear program but for international pressure. the iranians are saying that this report came at a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the nonaligned movement. conference in tehran has been highly successful instead of iran being isolated the united states has become isolated vented opposed senior figures going to tehran and many major world leaders have come to the country in addition the president of egypt came here on which is a political earthquake the iranians are producing uranium. enrichment at twenty percent for facilities in iran which then produce medical isotopes

the fact that the united states and the europeans tried to prevent iran from obtaining this fuel in the past met that meant that they were taking iranian cancer patients hostage the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce uranium at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the americans and the europeans by taking iraq citizens and people hostage for sea iranians to take that step politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility the washington seems reluctant to endorse a strike on iran israel is getting all geared up for it people in tel aviv have been practicing emergency drills which simulate missile attacks and those archies policy or reports war preparations have also moved to the ideological arena.

this fifteen page emergency brochure is being distributed by the israeli army across the country and it puts around the mining based on very serious and grim statistics the bush take about what people should do in a state of emergency a sense that there is a need for family told the families to get together and talk about what to do if the country is in a state of crisis at the same time if is there anywhere between fifty fifty and three minutes is the time frame that israelis will have from the moment fire and sound until there is a state of emergency here and also urging people to go and check that they bomb shelters up to scratch now the pressure doesn't make any mention of any kind of meat on the ranch but certainly it is giving some kind of urgency and there have been those who suggested that it is really to be made to fit in by israeli politicians in preparation for human and war and certainly for that kind of record coming out of the israeli political elite some officials have said that we're looking at a civilian conference some five hundred people in any kind of war that would follow

and israeli strikes on the run parallel to the brochure there is an advert that is planking on israeli television and it shows a way in general we sit with the israeli army officers and they're trying to convince him to him this of putting him in israeli attacks on him and then you state presumably the ranch we can go at this stage to take a bite out of the chocolate hazelnut that sitting in front of him and he felt something along the lines of let go not with the israeli misinterprets we need we have given them that we might see the operations of the missiles start to fall fly and you have those who want to move situation and the israelis to me have been putting up there with me and it does seem as if there is something on the go we have heard some israeli politicians on record saying that a strike on iran is going to happen soon but the official line to be from the government in terms of. this and. that if nothing little general.

people need to know what. eight states. that are. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. a double suicide bombing near a military base in a central afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people including nine civilians more than seventy others were wounded a bomber on foot was followed by a truck driven by another attacker who's device exploded shortly afterwards the taliban have already claimed responsibility for the blasts. in belgium protests against the early release of the accomplice and ex-wife. have ended in scuffles with police the demonstration took place outside a convent where michel martin has been sent after serving just over half her jail sentence the woman was sentenced to thirty years in prison for letting two girls starve to death in a cellar helping her husband mark do true carry out sex abuse is on the other girls

. seven shia muslims have been shot dead in the city of pakistan police say gunmen on motorcycles forced the group off a bus and shot five of them two survivors tried to run away but were chased down and killed the attack is the latest in a wave of sectarian violence in pakistan shia groups blaming the government for failing to help. the beaches of ukraine's crimea draw thousands of tourists every summer however a recent underwater discovery may compromise the resort's long established reputation artie's alexy finds out how far the authorities will go to keep inconvenient facts from surfacing. locals in the crimea admit that the tourist season this year might have been better but still we're talking hundreds of thousands of stories from all over the world who have come here for summer holidays but none of them are aware that swimming in the sea here by actually be dangerous this summer dozens of dead dolphins washed up on crimean shores ecologists say this

is down to an infection and the actions of local poachers but others have connected these deaths to something more sinister divers recently discovered these barrels containing poisonous gas which were dumped in the sea by the retreating soviet army prior to the nazi invasion of one nine hundred forty one archives suggest one thousand two hundred containers are scattered around the crimean coast we have find and identified locations of five hundred twenty ten the integrity warranty of these bottles eventually expired starting from twenty eleven these containers to start falling apart. if poisonous substances are released into the sea water the consequences could be unimaginable gas can theoretically kill everything within forty kilometers however the state ecological watchdog firmly denies this threat even exists. are divers and specialists from the interior ministry check the bottom

of the sea or the board tori's tested water for poisonous substances and we found nothing. but this recently declassified documents suggest the opposite in two thousand and four crimea's authorities urged private colleges to check the coastline for threats that is when those containers were found former m.p. oleksandr is probably the only politician in ukraine who is making comments on the issue because she says the authorities are deliberately keeping the public in the dark and you get that same mentality of lock. in for a year or two now and don't want these problems in the hands of meanwhile more and more kids who counter this virus infections from crimea the summer holidays and this is the. i cannot state of the one who says lifting those containers from the bottom of the sea is impossible they will fall apart that's why experts suggest a different solution. does a technology which allows us to see all these containers all for seven hundred

years underground succumb for a constructed and put above the decaying barrels those would solve the problem. it is hard to estimate how much this kind of operation would cost but as long as these barrels are a threat to every black sea country key of would most certainly get international aid should it appeal for help this year's tourist season has finished with no major incidents but some say that next year unless there's urgent political action the region may not be so lucky alexi russia ski r.t. reporting from crimea ukraine. well moscow has been celebrating city day marking the anniversary of its eight hundred and sixty fifth year and on our website you can see some of the festivities.

tchaikovsky's eight hundred twelve overture wash footage from red square where an annual military music festival took place combined with a flashy parade uniting elite military units from all over the world. also online how one of the world's fastest developing markets has become a battlefield germany looks ready to join the economic war between china and the u.s. with a wrangle over the price of solar energy. plus t.v. race a new british sitcom about a family of pakistani immigrants stirs up a storm of complaints from muslim viewers. the u.s. presidential race is heating up with fresh maneuvering two months before the

election republican mitt romney has slammed his rival barack obama for his handling of foreign affairs but was in turn accused of paying little attention to troops in afghanistan but how much do americans really care for pre-election exchanges artie's resident in is in new york to find out. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are holding their national conventions and here the media and politicians talk about them that the most important things going on right now so who's watching and what have they seen this week let's talk about that have you been watching why not because i don't like either one of those guys so you don't watch and you don't vote and that's that no i do but i like voting for the work who's who's not the worst of the two. but do you need to watch the conventions to be informed know it's all crap have you been watching it all absolutely none of it

why now i hate the republicans you know watch the democratic convention probably not why now but i don't need to do you think there is actual information being said a sad at the conventions or a say just kind of b.s. but i think it's sort of you know sounds good on camera do you think that these conventions actually do anything. spend money our money our money how do you feel about that i don't like that. i do we get them to stop because you know romney's going to say leave town. the content is not so much the poor important as the outside how people perform that that's my first impression that people are choosing the heads not the terms i think most of europeans are through obama and that's it and you need to watch any of the bad never. really want to show us that i was really i mean congress or us are smarter than that that was really awful i'm sure

what better way irritates me is that these people aren't too bad actually really think we're stupid what are they covering up well she's a very intelligent lady but i mean she sat there for an hour striking mitt romney so you go well you know americans smarter than that you know that way i mean america needs someone to stand up and take charge i think lou let's face it ok. literature for themselves that's it i give up on it but don't they when i mean me you're not happy with the way things are going and so the solution you've chosen is to check out doesn't that mean they they went. yes. yes so it seems like most people aren't even watching but if you do decide to tune in and remember to watch it for what it is extremely calculated very expensive. designed to influence the way you think whether or not that works is up to you.

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